Is this the best they can do? The ad is of course completely bogus and absurd. The ad desperately tries to make an issue of the ad in which the Obama campaign points out that McCain can't send an e-mail. Yes, here we go again. In light of the huge economic crises, I think people will flat out reject this nonsense. But then again, I can be wrong.
A new independent group called Citizens for Open and Responsive Government says it's running a TV ad on cable in Colorado that goes after Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for knowingly attacking Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for not being able to use a computer because of his war wounds.
Here is the original ad by the Obama campaign.
The purpose of the Obama ad was to show that John McCain is out-of-touch. I never like the ad because I felt it was somewhat corny. So, in a sense, I agree with Biden, it was a terrible ad. But, it was not terrible for any of the reasons John McCain is alleging.
Here is the attack ad.
Transcript
Narrator: What do Mike Fairhead and John McCain have in common? They are both wounded veterans and neither of them are able use a computer or type an email because of war injuries. Apparently, Barack Obama's believes John McCain's war injuries disqualify him from being commander-in-chief. This attack is so shameful that even Obama's own running-mate, Joe Biden, described the attack as "terrible". Saying, "... [I'd] never have done it."
Fairhead: Mr. Obama, why do you attack Sen. McCain because of his disability?
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Update:
I left off an important piece to this story. The reason the Obama camp did the ad in the first place was because of this story originally printed in the NYT where McCain admits that he was going to become computer literate and that he did not bother to learn how to e-mail, direct quotes from McCain. He never mentioned that he was unable to use the computer or send an e-mail because of a disability.
He said, ruefully, that he had not mastered how to use the Internet and relied on his wife and aides like Mark Salter, a senior adviser, and Brooke Buchanan, his press secretary, to get him online to read newspapers (though he prefers reading those the old-fashioned way) and political Web sites and blogs.
"They go on for me," he said. "I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need."
Asked which blogs he read, he said: "Brooke and Mark show me Drudge, obviously. Everybody watches, for better or for worse, Drudge. Sometimes I look at Politico. Sometimes RealPolitics."
At that point, Mrs. McCain, who had been intensely engaged with her BlackBerry, looked up and chastised her husband. "Meghan’s blog!" she said, reminding him of their daughter’s blog on his campaign Web site. "Meghan’s blog," he said sheepishly.
As he answered questions, sipping a cup of coffee with his tie tight around his neck, his aides stared down at their BlackBerries.
As they tapped, Mr. McCain said he did not use a BlackBerry, though he regularly reads messages on those of his aides. "I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail," Mr. McCain said.
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